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Wretch 32: Black and White

Andy Gill, The Independent, 19 August 2011

IN THE WAKE of last week's riots, the North London rapper Jermaine Scott, aka Wretch 32, is bound to be tagged as the Voice of Young Tottenham, though there's much more going on in his rhymes — both musically and lyrically — than that kind of simplistic link might suggest.

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